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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this chance to support the Motion on the appointment of Mr. Lokaale to the CDF Board. First of all, we need to note that apart from being young, Mr. Lokaale also comes from the minority community which has been marginalized in this country for a long time. This is a positive move and I believe that the youthfulness of Mr. Lokaale will be brought to the board with positive results. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, things have been said about the CDF and the integrity of Members of Parliament. People should be assured that the CDF actually makes Members of Parliament accountable in the sense that well managed CDF committees have resulted in the Members of Parliament being more recognized by the people than anything else. So, any Member of Parliament who mishandles CDF cannot expect to get away from it from the public. The issue of people coming to say that CDF should be removed just because somebody does not like Members of Parliament handling it should not arise. I think that is a misconceived idea. In this country, we come up with plans which we fail to implement and other countries copy them and implement them. For once, we came up with something which we implemented ourselves and countries are now coming to see how we have implemented it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, CDF work is visible. When you go to the districts out there, you will find that the line Ministry in a financial year receives much more money than what the CDF receives yet the work that is seen on the ground is done by CDF. The work done by line Ministries can hardly be seen. That is the reason why, we had to get the CDF involved in the Ministry of Roads. Right now, you can see some changes in the construction of roads in the constituencies. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the CDF is unique in the sense that on the CDF Committee we have councillors there because the law says that it should be so. But no Member of Parliament sits on any Local Authorities Transfer Fund (LATF) committee. That is why you find that CDF is more successful than the LATF. However, all this will be endangered if we allow the bureaucracy that many hon. Members have spoken about to come in. They require that when you are buying land, you should get a valuation and so on. Land is always appreciating so by the time the board approves, they purchase and bring it back to the constituency, land has appreciated and you have to request them again for more money to complete the purchase. So, that bureaucracy is bringing down the functions of CDF. With those few remarks, I beg to report."
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